Album: The Miracle (1989)

Charted: 25

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• Eeh dah eeh dah
  Ooooh, ooooh, ooooh
  Scandal - now you've left me all the world's gonna know
  Hey scandal, they're gonna turn our lives into a freak show
  They'll see the heart-ache, they'll see our love break
  They'll hear me pleading, we'll say for God's sakes
  Over and over and over again
  Scandal - now you've left me there's no healing the wounds
  Hey scandal, and all the world can make us out to be fools
  Here come the bad news, open the floodgates (oooh oooh)
  They'll leave us bleeding, we say you cheapskates
  (Oooh oooh)
  Over and over and over again
  So let them know when they stare, it's just a private affair
  They'll have us hung in the air and tell me what do they care
  It's only a life to be twisted and broken
  They'll see the heart-ache, they'll see our love break - yeah
  They'll hear me pleading, I'll say for God's sakes
  Over and over and over and over again - yeah
  
  Scandal, scandal
  Scandal, scandal
  
  Yes you're breaking my heart again
  Scandal - yes it'll all and all happen again
  Today the headlines, tomorrow hard times
  And no-one ever really knows the truth from the lies
  And in the end the story deeper must hide (oooh)
  Deeper and deeper and deeper inside
  Scandal, scandal
  Scandal, scandal
  Writer/s: BRIAN HAROLD MAY, FREDDIE MERCURY, JOHN RICHARD DEACON, ROGER MEDDOWS TAYLOR
  Publisher: Royalty Network, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
  Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 5

• Rpskokie A Sockpuppet Of Hatchens from SeagrovePowerful song. Scandal and One Vision are so underrated.
• Lily from New Hampshirei like how in the vid its supposed to be a dramatic song but Deacy is just vibing (i like your name by the way it makes me laugh)
• Star Commander Zurg from The 33rd Squadron From The Planet Of Xy-52456746It's a scandal I never heard this song until I was 10 years old (today). Typical Queen awesomeness, I would say.
• Jason from CanadaA song that's just as relevant today as it was then.
• Chris from Crewe, England"Scandal" was the fourth single from Queen's thirteenth studio album "The Miracle", (1989). It was release on the 9th October 1989 in the UK where it peaked at No. 25. In the US it was release on the 11th October. The b-side for the track was "My Live Has Been Saved" which later appeared on the" Made In Heaven" album.
  
  "Scandal" was written by Brain May but is credited to Queen. The Miracle began a change in direction of Queen's song writing philosophy. Since the band's beginning, nearly all songs had been written by and credited to a single member, with other members adding minimally. With The Miracle, however, the band's song writing became more collaborative, and they vowed to credit the final product only to Queen as a group. This is echoed in the striking album cover, showing the four band members merge together.
  
  The song "Scandal" is about the unwanted attention that Brian May and Freddie Mercury received from the British press in the late 1980s. They had been controversial about Brain May's recent divorce from Chrissy Mullens and his new relationship to actress Anita Dobson. They married in 2000.
  
  It is also about the unwanted attention and speculation of Mercury's growing health problems (he hadn't yet publicly announces he had HIV/AIDS).
  
  Queen had several bad experiences with the British tabloids throughout their careers. Freddie Mercury chose early on to partly seclude himself from the press by these very reasons and rarely did interviews for them.
  
  The song can also be seen as how bad the press and the news can damage someone's life and the effect it has on them and their family. This is represented in lines such as:
  
  Here comes the bad news, open the floodgates
  They'll leave us bleeding, we say you cheapskates
  Over and over and over again
  
  It's a very serious, dark and dramatic song about the life inside the world of fame. It's not the sort of queen song you would play in a party but a Queen song you could listen and respect what their saying in the lyrics.
  
  May recorded the keyboards and did the guitar solo as a first take. Mercury's vocal was also done in a first take too. The Synth-bass is played by the producer, David Richards.
  
  The song is one of the best from the album because it's "Melodically" a Heavy metal song, & also lyrically it is very strong. Freddie has a great Metal voice in it as well and I think John Deacon plays an important role here, since his bass-line is extremely good! You can find one of those "Red Specialic" solos in here too.
  
  I think Freddie's voice on his later albums is definitely better than on any of their 70's or 80's albums. As his body is failing him, his voice gets so much stronger on this album and the next two, (Innuendo & Made in Heaven). It's a great song from Queen, from a great album. It's a shame and a scandal, (no pun intended, honestly!) it's not on The Greatest Hits II or III album.

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